It must be stated that I am not a leftist angry youth, I am just an ordinary citizen of normal mind who does not care much about politics. But I am also a human being. Whether it is the Nanjing Massacre or the Yangzhou Massacre or the Hiroshima Massacre or the massacre anywhere, I think it should be a heavy, regrettable and solemn topic. For this film, I can only use "shameless" to describe it. I chose to use such a heavy subject as the background of the film, but the performance was nothing but the coquettish and erotic scenes of a group of firework girls, coupled with those unsustainable plots and wretched laughing clips (especially the naked changing of clothes and assaults). The chest game clip), it's really sad.
Since I know it, I have watched 4 or 5 movies about this incident so far. "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is the worst one in any way.
With such a heavy subject matter, the movie uses such a glamorous name to simplify the entire pain of "the country is broken and the mountains and rivers are in" into a stage play of a spy god, a foreign drunk, 13 schoolgirls and 13 prostitutes. It did not show the horror and darkness of the whole Nanjing city at that time.
Literary dramas are vulgar, and martial arts dramas are too fake. The sharpshooters of the national army shot thousands of shots, and the Japanese army was in a dense group, shooting and sweeping. War is like child's play. The fight scenes are totally brain-dead. Makeup is rough. The setting is rough. Clothing is rough. The soldier was so dirty that he couldn't even see his facial features, but the girl was dressed neatly, twisting her butt and walking around among the rubble. What kind of time is it, there are mountains of corpses outside the church, and the Japanese army is red-eyed. A bunch of prostitutes are still drunk in the basement of the church, bare-chested when there are no guests. Quarrel with female students over trivial matters.
It's like shooting a campus youth drama, a girl's house was burned down in a fire, her parents didn't know whether she was alive or dead, she turned her head to the school, flirted with her male classmates, and looked back with a smile.
For this film, there are many authors who have written more deeply than me. I will not write more here. I just want to quote a whole paragraph from Lu Xun's essay "The New "Women General":
China originally liked to play tricks. On the stage in the countryside, there were often a pair of pairs, one side was a "small world of the theater", and the other was a "big theater of heaven and earth". When it comes to acting, because it is in the countryside, there is no such thing as "Emperor Qianlong Goes to the South of the Yangtze River", so it is often "Princess Shuangyang Chasing Di" and "Xue Rengui Recruiting Relatives", in which the female warriors are called "female generals" by spectators. She has a pheasant tail on her head, and holds a pair of knives (or a long spear with a point on both ends), and as soon as she comes out, spectators watch it with more enthusiasm. I know it's just a show, but it's more fun to watch. Soldiers who have been practicing for many years suddenly become non-resistanceists with the sound of a drum. So the literati and scholars from a long way talked about the first-class legendary classics of "beggar kills the enemy", "butcher becomes benevolent", and "strange woman saves the country". ".
What Lu Xun was talking about was nothing more than an illusion of national weakness. And this film goes a step further, it is a blatant show of pornography, betrayal of national humiliation, in order to box office.
These thirteen girls, now I heard that they are going to publish their calendars. Those who died in Nanjing, I don't know what to think.
And what's more painful than the 600 million-dollar movie itself is that in this day and age, you can hardly see real reviews about it on the Internet. The navy even used the language of the Cultural Revolution to confuse logic to slander all the voices of correct doubts about the film. They said: "Therefore, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is a movie that we should appreciate with respect and respect, no matter how many different or even alternative national historical emotions you have, you should not laugh at or ridicule it. The sincerity and artistic and historical value shown in the film. Some people may be able to express their so-called "personality" and "independent judgment", but unfortunately you do so, even if it does not happen to show your ignorance, Funny, it just proves that you are a coward."
Funny, right? But this is the portrait of our time.
After watching this movie, I came to two conclusions. One is that chickens are prettier than female students. Letting chickens die instead of schoolgirls violates the principles of eugenics. The second is that Catholicism is great. GEOGE, a young man influenced by Catholic priests, is the most determined person in the whole film.
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